Abstract
Weiss addresses questions regarding disinterested love and the ineffability of God raised by Davison and Rizvi, in their respective discussions. Through an analysis of the exposition of Job in Guide of the Perplexed, Weiss examines Maimonides’ interpretation of Job’s intellectual journey which challenges him to recognize the ineffability of God, as well as the incomprehensibility of divine providence, and promotes his disinterested righteousness that transcends the fear of retribution and the desire for reward.
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- 1.
Paul Ricoeur, “Evil, A Challenge to Philosophy and Theology,” Journal of The American Academy of Religion 53 (1985), 647.
- 2.
Job 23:3.
- 3.
Emil G. Kraeling, “A Theodicy – And More” in Nahum N. Glatzer (editor), The Dimensions of Job (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), pp. 208; Archibald MacLeish, “God Has Need of Man” in Nahum N. Glatzer (editor), The Dimensions of Job (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), pp. 284–286.
- 4.
Thomas Aquinas, The Literal Exposition on Job, A Scriptural Commentary Concerning Providence, trans. by Anthony Damico. (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989).
- 5.
Moses Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed III:22, Trans. By S. Pines. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), 487.
- 6.
Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed III:23, 492–493.
- 7.
Job 38:4.
- 8.
BT Sabbath 88b.
- 9.
Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed III:23, 497.
- 10.
ʿAṭṭār, Muṣībatnāma, p. 119, tr. Navid Kermani, The Terror of God, (Polity, 2011), 56.
- 11.
Kermani, The Terror of God, p. 77.
- 12.
Ibid., 133–134.
- 13.
BT Berakhot 7a.
- 14.
Ibid.
- 15.
Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed I:58; 137.
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Weiss, S. (2022). Reply to Davison and Rizvi. In: The Protests of Job. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95373-7_5
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